Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, is a young Canadian musician/artist whose creative work and unique style make her impossible to ignore.
She describes her own work in these words:
“the only means through which I can be fully
expressive. It is both an ethereal escape from, and a violent embrace
of, my experience. The creative process is a quest for the ultimate
sensual, mystical and cathartic experience and the vehicle for my
psychic purging. Visions was conceived in a period of self-imposed
cloistering during which time I did not see daylight.”
Her own description of her experience when she decided to barracade herself in a room for three weeks without food, sleep or company:
"Once you hit day nine, you start accessing some really crazy shit.You have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling
in the blanks. I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. I was
convinced my music was a gift from God. It was like I knew exactly what
to do next, as if my songs were already written."
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